{"id":253393,"date":"2020-04-28T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=253393"},"modified":"2020-04-28T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:57:54","slug":"209-new-covid-19-cases-recorded-among-overseas-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/28\/209-new-covid-19-cases-recorded-among-overseas-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"209 new Covid-19 cases recorded among overseas Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248077\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248077\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This brings the total positive to 1,604, some 419 of whom have recovered while 189 have died. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday reported 209 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among overseas Filipinos, the highest single-day increase recorded.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total positive to 1,604, some 419 of whom have recovered while 189 have died.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez said the newly reported cases also raised to 46 from 44, the number of countries with Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>The countries, however, were not identified.<\/p>\n<p>Of the overall tally, 360 cases came from the Asia-Pacific region, 454 from Europe, 333 from the Middle East\/Africa, and 457 from the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DFA personnel in our foreign service posts remain steadfast in partnering with local health authorities and agencies in ensuring adherence of our people with preventive measures against (the) Covid-19 pandemic, and commit to tirelessly attending to the needs of our people affected by this pandemic, whenever possible,&#8221; Me\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Covid-19 outbreak, thousands of overseas Filipino workers were also displaced due to temporary closures and suspensions of business operations.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent virtual briefing, DFA Undersecretary Sarah Lou Arriola assured that the repatriation efforts for those requesting to return home will continue.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 27, about 22,016 overseas Filipinos have returned to the Philippines amid the pandemic, 5,423 of whom were land-based while 16,593 were seafarers from about 78 cruise ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday reported 209 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253394,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253393\/revisions\/253394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}